Manx loughtan sheep

 

Isle of Man

 

Sunday

Well had an especially stessful and demanding week at work and pulled a muscle in my lower right back. So haven't done much training and therefore feeling guilty. Aggravated my knee by running for a train on thurs evening and am trying to avoid painkillers..they do work but ihave this irrational fear of dependency and images of ruptured stomach linings.!

Today however, the sun is shining in as I write tingling my toes with warmth. Its such a lovely day must go and potter around in garden, need to go and see new worms and feed them. Do some weeding and tidying up. Had a sleep in and having a naughty breakfast of hot cross buns / jam and Russian caravan tea. There is a tea/ coffee stall in my local market in Cambridge which sells a range of tea @ coffee. I like teas, and try different varities. We went to Sri Lanka a few years ago, which i strenously recommend to anyone thinking of going, and we visited a tea plantation. We took tea on the verandah overlooking the sloped hills covered in tea bushes in the blazing sun, the choc cake melted if we left it too long. All very colonial and Empire dont you know old boy. Good though.

The top grade teas are marked BOPF which measn Broken Orange pekoe fanning, and then down the scale from BOP etc etc. I think there are 17 grades of tea and the sweepings of the factory floor go in teabags, so if like me youra tea head, buy loose tea and get an infuser. Wife bought me a great valentines day present, a clear glass bodum tea pot with an inbuilt infuser. You can watch the tea swirling and twisting around as it brews to the strength of your own preference. Very relaxing, and the tea leaves go into the wormery worm house for recycling.

So buy loose tea and brew as your grandma used to do. Say no to tea bags and recycle.

back

OH one last thing, pulled amuscle in my back rowing. Arse.

worms

if like me you are into green ecology and saving the planet..go to petworms.blogspot.com and see the great world of wiggly wrom farming. I have a mini wormery in the garage containing hundreds of new worms after I accidentially killed all the old ones with to mich orange / grapefruit peel ! For some reson I find them fascinating, not as much as owls, cats or bees, but pretty good. I mean, you plop in kitchen food waste, chopped nice and small and they then munch and pooh away and we get top quality compost and garden feed. Brillant. When it gets warmer and sunnier, the bees box is going out, and Im up for a ladybird house plus Im going to buy ladybirds to eat all the nasties on our garden plants..no sprays in our garden last year and loads of ladybirds and bees. which means loads of birds and bees and that is VERY IMPORTANT.

So get a wormery, get a bee box, get a bird/ bat/ owl box.
Put out bird food now.
No sprays on plants.
Get ladybirds.
Plant plants that attract bees and birds.

DO YOUR BIT TO MAKE OUR WORLD BETTER.

Plus yiu have to admit, nature is bloody wonderful.

bye